Category: Wisdom

I woke up the other morning and realized I was in a funk. I wasn’t depressed, I wasn’t happy, I wasn’t angry. What was I? I continued my morning and did all of the things that usually lift my spirits (although, my spirits weren’t necessarily down…). I squeezed the daylights of out my cat, drank

Truth # 1: It’s going to happen People get jealous all the time, both inside and outside of a romantic relationship. Think about these examples: Have you ever been hanging out with two other friends, and over time you notice that one person gets jealous if the other two are hanging out more, or have

It felt like #DryJanuary was all the rage this year. Maybe it’s always a thing, but this year is the one where I noticed it, and also the year I decided to drag Shawn into doing it with me. Over the course of the month I’ve tried to pay attention to things happening inside my

Patience Patience is a funny thing. He and I have a love-hate relationship. (By that I mean, I hate being patient, and I love being impatient.) My dislike of patience knows no bounds. For example: I don’t enjoy walking places. If you ever ask me, “Want to go for a walk?” I will ask you, “Why?”

Hey girl. HEY, GIRL! Are you enjoying yourself? Maybe not right now, in this exact moment (Idk, maybe you’re at the gynecologist or something), but like overall? Are you enjoying yourself? Because guess what? We can control that. We can control A LOT of that. If you’re not enjoying yourself and it’s something you have

It’s resolution season, which means many of us are putting pen to paper and writing down goals we want to achieve in the new year. Isn’t it funny how amazing it feels to just make the goals? Like, half of the fun is planning how amazing and fun and productive your life is going to

Ah, to be young again Remember when you were 7 years old and people asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up? As if it was this very linear, structured route? Like, if you answered “I want to be a firefighter!” you would grow up, go to firefighter school (LOL, is that

Start with small, easy, accomplishable goals Use human nature to your advantage! Basic behavioral principles say that when we are rewarded for something, we are more likely to keep expending effort. Keeping this in mind, set some PURPOSEFULLY easy goals in the beginning. I’m talking minuscule, here. If your goal is to lose 50 pounds, set

I don’t know about you, but sometimes keeping an open mind for me is nearly impossible. (It is especially impossible for those of us who have a tendency to believe we’re always right.) If I have an expectation about how an experience is going to go down, I have little reason to change that expectation. (After

It’s that time of year again! Proposal season is among us. (Did you know that 40% of engagements happen between November and February?!) Our social feeds are soon going to be littered with engagement announcements, girls taking pictures of themselves driving or drinking coffee with their new rings, etc (Not hating, pretty sure I did